Hey,

 

 

 

My question is, where did or does the Runescape money start?

 

 

 

I find it interesting, but i can't find a good answer for it.

 

 

 

The thing i thought was that i began by High Alchers.

 

 

 

What do u think??

 

 

 

Discuss here.

 

 

 

 

 

~Skaten

you mean where they came from from the beginning?

 

 

 

Mainly from mining & smithing and then selling to stores back in the very early days of RSC, those two are the only possible ways of money comming into the RS world. Possibly also picking up stuff from item spawns.

i agree with you chaos, there's no way the guys back in rsc were able to train their magic without the rc skill, the runes would cost far too much. and to lvl 55..

 

 

 

there's also a way called 'the banana plantation' :mrgreen:

i agree with you chaos, there's no way the guys back in rsc were able to train their magic without the rc skill, the runes would cost far too much. and to lvl 55..

 

 

 

there's also a way called 'the banana plantation' :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

 

it started with mining and smithing, and selling iron and steel plates to the armory shop in varrock

 

 

 

and in rsc the monsters dropped more runes (2X as many)

 

not 100% sure

Don't forget the free 20 coins from Tutty!

I also think the Weapons-Armor selling stuff...

 

Now the High-Alchers...

Don't forget the free 20 coins from Tutty!

 

 

 

...which didn't exist in the early days. ;)

Psh.... In the early days we didn't have runecrafting or Tut. island. They just kinda dumped you into the game and assumed you'd know how to survive. Just try to imagine the noobs of today going through that... :lol:

 

 

 

Early coins came from monster drops, and by selling what they dropped to stores. A couple weeks after that, smithers and miners started selling to stores. That's where most of the money probably came from. High alchers brought in more money later on in the game.

Nice to see that u guys are discussing this :P

 

 

 

 

 

~Skaten 92

Psh.... In the early days we didn't have runecrafting or Tut. island. They just kinda dumped you into the game and assumed you'd know how to survive. Just try to imagine the noobs of today going through that... :lol:

 

 

 

 

Dumping you into the game is far more effective than tutorial, I'm sure 50% of the people who start playing Runescape can't even make it to the mainland because of the boredness of T.I. :P Seriously, my mates don't play Runescape because of the tutorial island.

My guess is people sold stuff to shops, got stuff from respwans and sold them to shops. Once they had enough money, they would train magic and high alch (when/if it came out).

 

My guess though, I haven't played before Dec. 2005.

and now all the cash disappears mostly via buying runes and construction...

in rsc i used to smith mithril and then sold it in the general store

From Wikipedia:

 

 

 

The economy in RuneScape Classic was very stable. It depended mainly on the selling of ores, metal bars, and certain scarce items. Ores and bars could be exchanged as notes, a guaranteed currency. All other items could only be exchanged in small quantities. Amongst the most valuable items were holiday drops, items that were added to the game by Jagex for entertainment but which became valuable due to scarcity. New holiday drops are no longer tradeable.

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuneScape_economy

 

 

 

Good reading

The earliest money was made by street dancing, and performing in the many bars of Runescape. \

Don't forget the free 20 coins from Tutty!

 

 

 

...which didn't exist in the early days. ;)

 

 

 

And it's 25 anyway, just got a skiller started a few weeks ago.

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there's also a way called 'the banana plantation'

yea most likely smithin/minin but i think that fishing was a pretty big money maker because you could keep fishign even with a full load...faster exp

mmm. pretty easy...

 

monster drops.

 

quest

 

alching.

 

things in that nature.

 

kinda a dumb forum. but now you know!

I would say by selling EVERYTHING, they didn't have a bank back then after all, and when the bank first came out, it could only store money. Or maybe there was always a gold bank? I'm not really sure, I came in when it could only store money.

The earliest money was made by street dancing, and performing in the many bars of Runescape. \

 

 

 

if only u really could get money doing that lol

I was the master Dancer/Performer of RSC, I think I got about 200gp doing that lol.

 

 

 

But yeah, making then selling armored plates to horvic in Varrock was the main way to bring money into the economy.

The earliest money was made by street dancing, and performing in the many bars of Runescape. \

 

 

 

Preach!! LMAO! And oh, the forums are back up Pure ... but I can't log in rofl

Dont know if it still works but picking grain was a good way to make money if you had nothing better to do... I had a friend who would just stand in a field and pick grain. He would talk to people and watch TV or something while he was playing, but he would always pick grain... Since it stacked, it only took him a few days before he had gotten a million or so. High alch that for 1gp each is a million right there.

alching, monster drops, and selling to stores. Also people had 99 magic before RC came out...